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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Mayo: Breaking down the Top 50 Prospects

Rangers, Rays and Royals top the number of Top 50 prospects. Four Venezuelans - a growing number in baseball. Zero Matt Bushes.

Top ten:

1. OF Jason Heyward ATL
2. P Stephen Strasburg WAS
3. OF Mike Stanton FLA
4. C Buster Posey SFG
5. P Brian Matusz BAL
6. OF Desmond Jennings TBR
7. P Neftaliz Feliz TEX
8. 3B Pedro Alvarez PIT
9. 1B Justim Smoak TEX
10.P Madison Bumgarner SFG

RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: January 28, 2010 at 03:31 PM | 11 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. Cowboy Popup Posted: January 28, 2010 at 05:45 PM (#3448691)

It'll be interested to see where Montero ends up in these lists. There seems to be slightly less consensus that he will never play catcher in the majors and I really think that even if he's a first baseman/DH, he's still incredibly valuable. Because of that, I feel like he's a little underrated here (fully acknowledging that I no longer have the time to keep up on prospects much). I'm not sure why a guy like Justin Smoak, who is three years older than him and a first baseman, would be ranked in front of him for example.

2. Daunte Vicknabbit! Posted: January 28, 2010 at 06:07 PM (#3448706)

Any praise of Justin Smoak immediately jumps to a Mark Teixeira comp for me. If you think that Smoak has a very high chance of being Teixeira and that Montero might be David Ortiz, it's not entirely unreasonable to put Smoak on top.

3. JJ1986 Posted: January 28, 2010 at 06:20 PM (#3448711)

I think Montero is far too low at 19.

4. rconn23 Posted: January 28, 2010 at 06:32 PM (#3448729)

"I think Montero is far too low at 19."

It is. Law has him at 10, which seems about right.

5. Willie Mayspedes Posted: January 28, 2010 at 06:35 PM (#3448732)

This list has Brett Wallace about 15 spots higher than Michael Taylor. Most lists had Taylor as being a little bit higher. </A's hijack>

6. Smyly Smile (Walewander) Posted: January 28, 2010 at 06:37 PM (#3448736)

Tigers notes: Austin Jackson is 38 on this list, 70 on Law's. Law has Crosby at 45, Crosby not on MLB's. Turner cracks the MLB top 50, Law has him in the 80s somewhere.

7. Van Lingle Mungo Jerry Posted: January 28, 2010 at 06:37 PM (#3448737)

Team representation (sorry about the weird formatting, but the numbers are correct):

TEX 4 ATL 2 WAS 2 CHC 1 MIN 1
TB 4 MIL 2 PHI 2 ARI 1 NYY 1
KC 4 LAD 2 CIN 2 SEA 1 LAA 0
BOS 3 SF 2 COL 2 BAL 1 STL 0
OAK 2 CLE 2 DET 2 SD 1 NYM 0
TOR 2 FLA 2 HOU 1 PIT 1 CWS 0

8. Davo Malvolio Posted: January 28, 2010 at 06:57 PM (#3448762)

This is the very first time I've seen Mike Stanton's name, which is odd, because I knew* everyone else in the top 20.

* I could at least tell you what position they played and what team's system they were in.

9. Crispix Attacks Posted: January 28, 2010 at 07:00 PM (#3448763)

NYM 0? I thought their great catchers alone would make up a tenth of this list.

10. JJ1986 Posted: January 28, 2010 at 07:09 PM (#3448774)

This is the very first time I've seen Mike Stanton's name, which is odd, because I knew* everyone else in the top 20.

You probably just confused him for the pitcher before.

11. Davo Malvolio Posted: January 28, 2010 at 08:15 PM (#3448857)

10. This one: http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/stantmi01.shtml

or

this one: http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/stantmi02.shtml

? ;)

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